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Fire prevention work to cover more public land

Fire prevention work will be carried out on an extra 10,000 hectares of public land across Victoria this financial year.

The Department of Environment and Primary Industries says 260,000 hectares will be covered.

It has released its Fire Operations Plans which outline where the burns, slashing and other work will take place.

The department's Alison Kerr says public feedback is welcome before the details are finalised at the end of August.

"All the comment from local stakeholders and local members of the public to have a look on our website or come into one of our offices and talk to some farm management staff about where these burns and works are and to get some local input into them," she said.